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owenpalmer

1,342 karma · joined October 28, 2021

I love programming, science, robotics, automation, teaching.

I'm a bioengineering undergraduate student at the University of Washington, working in tissue engineering research to build functional human organs.

Website: owenpalmer.com

Email: owenpalm@uw.edu

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owenpalmer··on Too many men suffering in silence, national health report finds (Canada)
Men are more aggressive so they choose more aggressive methods, which work better.
owenpalmer··on Knives manufactured from human feces do not work (2019)
shocker
owenpalmer··on Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
I love the blender game engine. To me, it's as nostalgic as a favorite video game from childhood. I spent countless hours building little projects as a kid. I was really sad when they removed it in v2.8

Now as an adult, I can see why they removed it. It didn't make sense to put resources into it.

I'm really happy about the UPBGE project. It doesn't compare to the capabilities of Godot, but that's okay. It just makes me happy that someone else cared about it enough to pour time into it.

owenpalmer··on Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security
We've already moved away from sites storing credit card information, because the risk of storing it yourself is simply too high. We need to make the stakes higher for other personal information.
owenpalmer··on I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard
> I've concluded that I think I and you are the problem

Oh please. If someone shits in your sandwich, you're not the problem for disliking the flavor of salami for the next 2 years.

owenpalmer··on Meta VR Glasses
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owenpalmer··on Midjourney Medical
Why would you jump from an ultrasound to chemotherapy? It's not meant to be a definitive diagnosis, it's just an early screening process...
owenpalmer··on Midjourney Medical
I'm not so worried about the data being useful, I'm worried about the machine actually working.

I mean, with that much data, you may be able to understand under what timeframe a tumor is actually of concern. What's so bad about having some false positives?

owenpalmer··on Midjourney Medical
I think getting more medical data could prevent a lot of health problems, and collecting it in a relaxed and frequent environment could be interesting. This announcement is honestly just... a bit weird. They're talking about wanting to do a billion scans a month, but they haven't even mentioned what the ultrasound data can tell you about your health, nor have they showed a physical demo of the product. I think the latter is the most important part, does it actually work?
owenpalmer··on Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
Importantly, the researchers told it to do that specific task.
owenpalmer··on FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs
A law that is not enforced is ultimately a suggestion
owenpalmer··on OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision
> This is not just another incremental release. OpenCV 5 is a major step forward.

Am I the only one that finds this sentence very cheesey?

owenpalmer··on Why are so many young people getting cancer?
Why did you write it as "1969ties"?
owenpalmer··on EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids
Smoking has entered the chat
owenpalmer··on David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
One of the most iconic voices.

https://youtu.be/P3ump1Buszo?si=0DoXiDTqZOyTBUst

owenpalmer··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
I tried to become a contributor to Canvas (it's open source), but I couldn't even get a development environment setup because of their storage space requirements.

https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/wiki/Quick-Start

> It is recommended that you have at least 150GB of available hard drive space, 8GB of RAM, and a quad-core CPU to use this script.

As far as I can tell, this is not for running a production environment with assets. This is just the development environment.

owenpalmer··on Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
A truly wonderful read
owenpalmer··on Ti-84 Evo
70 months, or 5.83 years
owenpalmer··on If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive
What other reasons?
owenpalmer··on If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive
Perhaps red is selfish, but blue is most certainly foolish.
owenpalmer··on If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive
Is it worse? Wouldn't the red people end up with more like-minded red people?
owenpalmer··on If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive
> It's naive to think that 100% of people will press the red button.

Those who press the blue button are trying to save those who press the blue button. If they weren't trying to save each other, they wouldn't have to.

owenpalmer··on Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics
All textbooks are free if you know where to look
owenpalmer··on PCR is a surprisingly near-optimal technology
Optimized? Perhaps.

Optimal? Not even close.

owenpalmer··on What we learned building a Rust runtime for TypeScript
That does what?
owenpalmer··on What we learned building a Rust runtime for TypeScript
I can't seem to tell exactly what they built. They call it a runtime, but they're using NodeJS?

Did they implement a transpiler in Rust?

They also seem to be calling Rust from JS, but not through wasm...

They seem to be doing something with Rust and http, but they're also just using "Pingora"...

Additionally, their homepage is about 20 fps while scrolling on my phone (pixel 4a, brave)

I would honestly love for someone to explain to me wtf is going on.

owenpalmer··on I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK
Alternatively, they could just make the web UI good.
owenpalmer··on Show HN: I built an OS that is pure AI
> It generates real wasm that runs directly on the machine.

Well, it's not directly on the machine. You still need the wasm engine/runtime to run it

owenpalmer··on Show HN: I built an OS that is pure AI
They're like an OS by analogy, but all of them require an actual OS to interface with the hardware. I don't think making that term fluid is a good idea. If we did, how would I refer to... "an actual OS"?
owenpalmer··on Show HN: I built an OS that is pure AI
> Currently it runs as a desktop app on Linux, macOS, and Windows

Does that mean it's not actually an OS?

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